266 CLASS AVES. 



Blanchot Shrike, Lath. H. Laniiis. Le Blanchof, 



Vail. O. A. t. 285. 

 Greenish olive ; beneath brownish yellow ; crown and 

 nape slate-gray; forehead white. Size of a thrush. 

 Senegal. 



Madagascar Shrike, Lath. H. 46. L. Madagascari- 

 ensis, Lin. pi. Enl. t. 299. 



Ash, beneath white ; eyebrows white ; tail reddish ; 

 upper wing-coverts red ; male, throat black ; five inches 

 long. Madagascar. 



Blue Shrike, Lath. 26. Loxia Madaga^carina, Lin. et 

 Lanius Bicolor, pi. En. t. 298. f 1. Vail. O. A. 73, 

 1, 2, 3. Nat. Misc. t. 52L 



Tail nearly equal ; above blue, beneath white ; face 

 black ; six inches and a half long. Madagascar. 



American Shrike, Lanius Americanus, Lath. 9. pi. 

 Enl. 39. 



Reddish-brown, beneath yellowish, crown gray, quills 

 and tail black, throat and tail tips white. Eight inches 

 long. N. America. 



Blue striped Roller. Coracias Pacifica, Forst. Cor. 



Striata, Lath. Philemon Sagittatus, Vieill. 

 Blue black, streaked with bluish green ; bill, tail, and 

 feet black ; length eight inches. New Caledonia. 



Lanius Poliocephalus, Licht. 



Above green, head gray, lores, beneath, and the 

 lengthened thighs, bright yellow ; quill and tail- 

 feathers yellow-tipt ; length ten and a half inches. 

 Senegal. Not the L. Policephalus of Lord Stanley, in 

 Salt, Voy, App. 1. 



